Baptizing Burma Art & Design Education Always distrustful of the media

Always distrustful of the media

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Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption

Baptizing Burma Art & Design Education Always distrustful of the mediaIn July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in Rangoon to preach the gospel. Celebrated in the Protestant press, which ran dramatic accounts of exotic adventures, the attempt to convert the Burmese met mixed results. Although Burmese Buddhists largely resisted Christian evangelism, people from minority communities were baptized in astonishing numbers throughout the nineteenth century. American Baptist Christianity was itself transformed